Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the pr…

Did the gatekeepers let him in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gatekeepers · What happens: let in · To what, where: him

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1846 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the prince turns handsome, tricks his brothers-in-law and is refused at the gate» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gatekeepers	det
3	gatekeepers	gatekeeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in	past · do-support	the gatekeepers	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they said he's a bum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bum	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bum	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bum	det
8	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	he	a bum					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, they called him poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	they		him = he			poor property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

Nah, they called him a loser

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 loser	det
7	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	they		him = he				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4

Nah, they said he looked like a total bum and kicked him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 bum	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bum	det
9	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bum	amod
10	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kicked	cc
12	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kicked	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 kicked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	past	he		like a total bum	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	kick out	past	they not said here	him = he		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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